topic Re: Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn in AutoCAD Forum

Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn

draftsman1GRDKD — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:37:12 GMT

Hi, I am a relatively new user of autocad after taking a traineeship in drafting. I used cad to do design drawings of scaffolding and I am trying to get all of the blocks I use into a table that gives me an accurate count of the number of blocks I have in each drawing(there can be a lot) to supply a gear list for the work to be done, and also the combined weight for engineers.

I do use an add-on to autocad which gives me a table with the blocks I use from that add-on so I know it can be done but I just can't figure out how to get my blocks to do it.

When I spoke to another user they said it has something to do with auto listing and writing a code within cad but I have no idea about that.

any help would be much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Lee

Re: Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 06:54:33 GMT

Hi,

>> get all of the blocks I use into a table that gives me an accurate

>> count of the number of blocks

Please find this command: _DATAEXTRACTION (>>>details<<<)

I guess this is what you are looking for.

- alfred -

Re: Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn

vinodkl — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:25:41 GMT

Hi @draftsman1GRDKD

You can use lisp to get this done.

You can download the .lsp file from this link: http://www.lee-mac.com/blockcounter.html

Once downloaded drag and drop the .lsp into AutoCAD or use the command "APPPLOAD" and then browse the .lsp to load it. Once loaded type in the command "COUNT" and then select all the blocks and then click to place the table containing the counts of the blocks with name and preview of the block 🙂

Re: Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn

draftsman1GRDKD — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 01:33:40 GMT

thanks for the advice

Re: Making a pre populated table from blocks I've drawn

draftsman1GRDKD — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 01:38:45 GMT

thank you, this was very helpful.